This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To...

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.

This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.

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Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!

This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.

Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

Join this session to learn how to model clear instructions about AI use, ways to create AI disclosure statements, and suggestions for maintaining ongoing conversations about your AI policies throughout the semester. By setting expectations, promoting transparency, and encouraging open dialogue about AI use, you'll create an informed learning environment where students can leverage these tools responsibly and effectively.

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This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...

An overview of ICON (powered by Canvas) Gradebook. Attend this session to learn how to build a simple gradebook from start to finish, enable a standard grading scheme to convert scores to letter grades, organize assignments into grading groups, and enter grades using SpeedGrader for faster input. 

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ICON (Iowa Courses Online) is the Learning Management System at the University of Iowa, and is primarily powered by Canvas, but there is even more to know about ICON. Join this session for an introduction to ICON's basic user interface, how to manage your account settings, and learn about the tools available in an ICON course site.

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Top Hat has several options to engage students with in-class quizzes, surveys, and discussions, as well as attendance features that connect to the ICON gradebook. Learn how to get started with this platform and get ideas to adapt it to your courses.

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This training session will teach you about the pitfalls of PDF files and how to replace or remediate them to help make your materials meet digital accessibility standards. We will learn about the tools we have on campus to help with this process and provide a demo on how to fix PDFs and make your documents better.

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This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include navigation, settings, chat, communicating in a team, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for...

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the online MSW program.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91760640877

Questions? Contact Lauren at ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu